City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and are what I consider another important set of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins, who for years has made […]
Author: Kenneth R Marks
Kenneth R Marks was born and educated in the San Francisco Bay Area, receiving a BS in Mathematics in 1968. His career was in Information Technology; with the last 20 Years as a software executive with Boeing, Pearson, and NASA. His genealogy career began in 2004. He is an expert in newspaper research for genealogy, as well as additional genealogy topics. He regularly conducts webinars on the subject and has authored three genealogy books. See the About page for more details.
The Ancestor Hunt, founded in 2008, is focused on helping genealogy and family history researchers of all skill levels to achieve their goals, by providing links to free online genealogy collections, and search tips and techniques, largely via easy-to-understand Quick Reference Guides.
MyHeritage continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of February 1-29,2024, There are 31 new and 10 updated collections. The new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 932 million digitized pages from 25,607 titles. Here is a list of the 36 new titles from the past month. New Titles AustraliaSouth Australia ScotlandEast Lothian Strathclyde United StatesCalifornia District of Columbia Florida Illinois Maine Pennsylvania Good […]
If you follow The Ancestor Hunt, you know that we specialize in curating and presenting links to Free Online Genealogy Records, Collections, and Indexes by genealogical category. You can always get to these links by selecting the Resources tab and then the By Locations page, selecting a state, and then a category. Not all genealogy-related […]
Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers over 74.4 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 5 new titles and added to 78 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
If you follow The Ancestor Hunt, you know that we specialize in curating and presenting links to Free Online Genealogy Records, Collections, and Indexes by genealogical category. You can always get to these links by selecting the Resources tab and then the By Locations page, selecting a state, and then a category. Not all genealogy-related […]
If you follow The Ancestor Hunt, you know that we specialize in curating and presenting links to Free Online Genealogy Records, Collections, and Indexes by genealogical category. You can always get to these links by selecting the Resources tab and then the By Locations page, selecting a state, and then a category. Not all genealogy-related […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for February 2024. There are 7 New Titles and 114 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 74.4 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of February 1-29, 2024, the new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for February 2024. There are 3 New Titles and 53 Titles that have had issues added. There are over 16,000 titles available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or updated this month, […]